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How to set up VS code and use python on new surface laptop? (Processor: Snapdragon X2 Elite @ 4.03 GHz (4.03 GHz))

I bought a new surface laptop for grad school (computer details at the end of the post) in July 2027. My program requires us to learn python. We used VS code in our first class to complete assignments. However, the professor, TAs, and I had issues…

Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Other
Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Other

A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web, mobile devices and many other platforms. Miscellaneous topics that do not fit into specific categories.

5,845 questions
asked 2026-08-17T05:02:11.2833333+00:00
Allen Cardenas 20 Reputation points
answered 2026-10-23T17:12:26.37+00:00
Allen Cardenas 20 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Xbox billing

Will my monthly Xbox subscription be suspended if payment is 1 week late

Microsoft 365 and Office | Subscription, account, billing | For home | Other
asked 2026-10-23T17:04:58.17+00:00
Gord Robertson 20 Reputation points
accepted 2026-10-23T17:07:46.41+00:00
Gord Robertson 20 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Microsoft Word Comments Disappearing

Comments in Word are disappearing with the most recent update. When original text is edited using tracked changes, the comments on the original text disappears and this has never happened before. Typically, when original text is edited using tracked…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For business | Windows
asked 2026-10-23T15:19:37.14+00:00
Daniela Pagliuso 20 Reputation points
answered 2026-10-23T16:26:48.0266667+00:00
Ryan-N 16,960 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How do I keep PowerPoint from defaulting spellchecker back to Portuguese when Spellchecker is set to English - US?

How do I keep PowerPoint from defaulting spellchecker back to Portuguese or other language outside of English - US when Spellchecker is set to English - US? Despite following all the troubleshooting posted here on this site and elsewhere for my language…

Microsoft 365 and Office | PowerPoint | For business | Windows
asked 2026-10-23T13:27:41.8833333+00:00
Scott Vallery 40 Reputation points
accepted 2026-10-23T16:04:35.36+00:00
Scott Vallery 40 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Use of Microsoft Office Home 2024 after October 2029

I understand that support for Mac Office Home 2024 will end in October 2029. Will I be able to continue using the Word app in Office Home 2024 with all the functions (editing etc.) even after that date, in spite of the end of support? Or will Office Home…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Other
asked 2026-06-15T04:14:19.22+00:00
James Koetting 60 Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-10-23T16:00:52.3833333+00:00
CS 25 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

.NET 6 and In-process model retirement

We are currently operating Azure Functions based on .NET 6 using the in-process hosting model. While we understand that existing workloads are expected to continue running beyond the announced retirement date, we need clarity regarding the operational…

Azure Functions
Azure Functions

An Azure service that provides an event-driven serverless compute platform.

6,393 questions
asked 2026-03-04T06:16:46.8066667+00:00
Miarczynski, Artur 25 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T15:38:55.87+00:00
JuliaMarvin 24,195 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
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How to stop formatting showing in track changes (Word for Mac)

I am a Mac user. In Word, how can you permanently stop formatting showing in track changes? I have formatting unticked but when I save and re-open, the formatting changes are showing again.

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
asked 2026-08-06T11:40:06.9533333+00:00
Liz Evans 0 Reputation points
recommended 2026-10-23T15:25:31.3666667+00:00
Stefan Blom 357.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

I can't delete anything from my OneDrive.

I have received a notification that my storage limit has been exceeded. I have attempted to delete some files to free up space, but unfortunately, the files are not being deleted. Despite several attempts, the storage issue remains unresolved. Please…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneDrive | For business | Windows
asked 2026-02-26T11:03:09.61+00:00
Anonymous
commented 2026-10-23T15:24:29.04+00:00
JuliaMarvin 24,195 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Requested App Service Plan not available in resource group

Hello, I need to update the App Service Plan of one of my web apps to P*MV3. However I am getting the following error when trying to switch : Requested features 'Linux Worker, MV3 Series Worker' not available in resource group [...]. Please try using a…

Azure App Service
Azure App Service

Azure App Service is a service used to create and deploy scalable, mission-critical web apps.

10,019 questions
asked 2025-04-15T12:33:33.37+00:00
Théo Mouchabac 60 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T15:23:38.85+00:00
George Flourentzos 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

On a VSTO add-in, PresentationSave event is not fired anymore when the presentation is saved with "Save as"

Hi, I am developping VSTO add-ins for PowerPoint, Excel and Word for a few years now. Since a few weeks, I observed that PresentationSave and PresentationBeforeSave events are not fired anymore when the user saves the presentation with "Save…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Development | Other
asked 2026-10-07T07:29:43.2233333+00:00
Gradlon 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T15:09:50.9666667+00:00
Liora 3,770 Reputation points Independent Advisor
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Is there no way to automatically archive blobs that are in the Cool storage tier without having to move them?

We have over 78TB of Blobs that were for a project that is now completed. This 78TB contains hundreds of millions of blobs. We now want to archive these blobs. Is there no way to do this automatically without having to move blobs to another storage…

Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage

An Azure service that stores unstructured data in the cloud as blobs.

3,350 questions
asked 2026-10-22T19:07:15.23+00:00
JohnSebastian-3934 606 Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-10-23T14:52:38.0566667+00:00
Alex Burlachenko 26,135 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

are there modifications to File Explorer, clipboard and notepad, that will open, edit, and link with SDKs like visual studio insiders?

my Development Suit of vs code, python, android, copilot, git, github, etc: needs an editor capable of linking and editing source code

Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Extensions
asked 2026-10-15T20:25:06.0433333+00:00
Jerry DuBose 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T14:22:37.11+00:00
Asadullah jaffar jaffar 0 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Some Cursors not updating according to custom cursor scheme

On my Windows 11 PC, I changed my default cursor scheme and noticed that all the cursors applied the update except for the Pan cursor, grab cursor, zoom in and zoom out cursors didn't change. When I opened Mouse Properties. Under Pointers, there are no…

Windows for home | Other | Search, touch, and mouse
asked 2026-10-22T11:51:43.1966667+00:00
Timi Abenemi 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T14:22:34.51+00:00
Vikki-T 14,390 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

I wasn't notified of Oct 1 deadline with publisher through my organization and I now want to export files to word. Is there a work around?

It won't allow me to export. I know it's past the Oct 1 deadline but I wasn't aware of this.

Microsoft 365 and Office | Publisher | For business
asked 2026-10-22T22:48:31.5233333+00:00
Beam, Kris 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T14:15:30.2366667+00:00
Beam, Kris 20 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to get an event grid subscription to delete

I have a bunch of event grid subscriptions in a dev environment that are stuck (state = DeleteFailed) and will not delete. I also cannot create a new subscription. It gets stuck in the creating state.

Azure Event Grid
Azure Event Grid

An Azure event routing service designed for high availability, consistent performance, and dynamic scale.

515 questions
asked 2026-06-08T18:59:12.59+00:00
Jamie Bartz 40 Reputation points
accepted 2026-10-23T14:00:33.47+00:00
Jamie Bartz 40 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Data Zone Standard (EU) availability for Cohere Embed v5 / Rerank v5 in Foundry

We're an EU company building a RAG platform with EU-only data processing requirements (GDPR). On Microsoft Foundry, Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro/fast are available as Data Zone Standard (EU), but Cohere-Embed-V5-Pro/Fast and Cohere-rerank-v5-pro/fast are…

Foundry Models
Foundry Models

A catalog of AI models in Microsoft Foundry that you can discover, compare, and deploy using Azure’s built‑in tools for evaluation, fine‑tuning, and inference

247 questions
asked 2026-10-22T14:11:44.3866667+00:00
Luca Colombo 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T13:10:25.8766667+00:00
Luca Colombo 20 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

URGENT: Microsoft 365 Reseller Unavailable – Administrator Access Recovery

URGENT: Microsoft 365 Reseller Unavailable – Administrator Access Recovery Our Microsoft 365 reseller, who managed the email accounts and licences for five UK businesses, has unexpectedly become unavailable for an extended period. He operated alone, and…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For business | Windows
asked 2026-10-23T11:06:52.89+00:00
Eileen Owens 20 Reputation points
accepted 2026-10-23T12:59:09.0066667+00:00
Eileen Owens 20 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Horizontal scroll bar missing in Word 365 when using Windows 11

While testing with our Biology staff we discovered it only affects new documents, and not older ones created years ago. Tried all AI and other suggestions but nothing worked i.e. Tick 'Show horizontal scroll bar' in File > Options > Advanced…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For education | Windows
asked 2026-10-16T12:06:12.1166667+00:00
Winston_KLW 40 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T12:44:49.5366667+00:00
Winston_KLW 40 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Unable to have my media play on my network devices.

I have been trying to set my music back up on my home network. It did work, now my ROKU device will not show my desktop computer. I asked Copilot and this is the answer it gave me. This is the way I was setting it up and now this no longer shows on the…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-10-23T12:03:15.8566667+00:00
Horace Wiggins 625 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T12:43:29.11+00:00
Horace Wiggins 625 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Microsoft Office 2021 for Mac stopped working

Hi, I have Office Home & Student 2021 for Mac and over the last few days I have been blocked from creating or editing files. It says that my 2019 Office licence is not supported, but my licence is 2021, not 2019. I've checked my account online and…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | MacOS
asked 2026-09-25T20:50:27.3966667+00:00
AmandaH 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-10-23T12:42:55.3433333+00:00
Stefan Blom 357.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator